Paul M. Healy

Harvard Business School

James R. Williston James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration, Accounting and Management Unit Head

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1.

A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Mar 1999
Paul M. Healy and James Michael Wahlen
Harvard Business School and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
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The Fall of Enron

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-38
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Krishna Palepu and Paul M. Healy
Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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Corporate Governance, Enron, Accounting, Capital Markets, Capital Market Intermediaries, Board of Directors, Analysts

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Information Asymmetry, Corporate Disclosure and the Capital Markets: A Review of the Empirical Disclosure Literature

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Information Asymmetry, Corporate Disclosure and the Capital Markets: A Review of the Empirical Disclosure Literature

JAE Rochester Conference April 2000
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Feb 2001
Paul M. Healy and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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Information Asymmetry, Corporate Disclosure and the Capital Markets: A Review of the Empirical Disclosure Literature

Journal of Accounting & Economics, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-3, September 2001
Posted: 06 Sep 2001
Paul M. Healy and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

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Reporting decisions; Voluntary disclosure

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Governance and Intermediation Problems in Capital Markets: Evidence from the Fall of Enron

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-27
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Oct 2002
Paul M. Healy and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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Enron, Corporate Governance, Financial Reporting, Auditors, Financial Analysts, Standard Setters, Audit Committees, Management Compensation

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The Role of International Accounting Standards in Transitional Economies: A Study of the People's Republic of China

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Aug 2000
Elizabeth A. Eccher and Paul M. Healy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School
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Information Effects of Spin-Offs, Equity Carve-Outs, and Targeted Stock Offerings

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Nov 1997
Stuart C. Gilson, Paul M. Healy, Christopher F. Noe and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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R&D Accounting and the Tradeoff between Relevance and Objectivity

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Feb 1999
Paul M. Healy, Stewart C. Myers and Christopher D. Howe
Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability around the World

Review of Accounting Studies, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp 1281-1308, December 2014
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and University of Michigan
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market competition, Performance persistence, Cross-country differences, Financial statement analysis

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Do Buy-Side Analysts Out-Perform the Sell-Side?

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 30 Sep 2005
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, Craig J. Chapman, Devin M. Shanthikumar and Yang Gui
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Accounting Area
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buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts, analyst forecasts, stock recommendations, forecast optimism, forecast accuracy, recommendation optimism, recommendation performance

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Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?

NBER Working Paper No. w3348
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2022
Paul M. Healy, Krishna Palepu and Richard S. Ruback
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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Which Types of Analyst Firms Make More Optimistic Forecasts?

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-46
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 Aug 2003
Amanda Cowen, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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Analyst Forecast Optimism, Analysts' Incentives, Types of Security Firms, Earnings Forecasts, Target Prices

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An Analysis of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts

The Accounting Review Vol. 91, No. 2, pp. 489-511, 2016
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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corruption, bribery, corporate performance, sales growth, profitability, disclosure, enforcement, monitoring, leadership

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Agency Costs and Enforcement of Management Controls: Analyzing Punishments for Perpetrators of Economic Crimes

AAA 2017 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 12 May 2018
Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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economic crime, gender, fraud, penalties, corruption, social networks, agency costs

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Voluntary, Self-Regulatory and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments

Accounting Horizons, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2019
Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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oil and gas, transparency, disclosure, corruption, competition, self regulation, regulation

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The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts

Management Science, 59 (5): 1062-1075
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2014
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim and Devin M. Shanthikumar
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
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Buy-Side Analysts, Sell-Side Analysts, Stock Recommendations, Recommendation Optimism, Recommendation Performance

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Wall Street Research

Journal of Applied Finance (Formerly Financial Practice and Education), Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 6-16, 2014
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Paul M. Healy
Harvard Business School
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What Drives Sell-Side Analyst Compensation at High-Status Investment Banks?

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 14 May 2011
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and David A. Maber
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Analysis Group, Inc
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What Factors Drive Director Perceptions of Their Board's Effectiveness?

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Feb 2016
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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board of directors, corporate governance, risk management

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An Empirical Examination of Sell-Side Brokerage Analysts’ Published Research, Concierge Services, and High-Touch Services

Forthcoming, European Accounting Review
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Sep 2020
David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
Analysis Group, Inc, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard Business School
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sell-side analysts, analyst ratings, brokerage commissions, earnings forecasts, compensation

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When the Crowd Fights Corruption

Harvard Business Review, Vol. 91, No. 1/2, 2013, Harvard Business School Research Paper
Posted: 10 May 2013
Paul M. Healy and Karthik Ramanna
Harvard Business School and University of Oxford - Blavatnik School of Government

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corruption, emerging economies, Crime and Corruption, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Globalization, Russia, Georgia (nation, Asia), India

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Fighting Corruption at Siemens

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Case No. 112-702
Posted: 07 May 2012
Paul M. Healy and Djordjija Petkoski
Harvard Business School and World Bank - World Bank Institute (WBI)

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Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (B)

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Case No. 110-050
Posted: 07 May 2012
Paul M. Healy, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard Business School

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Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Case No. 110-047
Posted: 07 May 2012
Paul M. Healy, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard Business School

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Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks

Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Unit Case No. 412-004
Posted: 02 Mar 2012
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Oddo Securities - ESG Integration

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Case No. 111-085
Posted: 29 Feb 2012
George Serafeim, Paul M. Healy and Aldo Sesia
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School

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Sidoti & Company: Launching a Micro-Cap Product

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Case No. 411-072
Posted: 14 Feb 2012
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Morgan Asset Management

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Case No. 411-058
Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (A)

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Case No. 111-082
Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim and David Lane
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2011
Posted: 09 Aug 2011
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School

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Equity Investments, Fundamental Analysis (Sector, Industry, Company) and the Valuation of Individual Equity Securities, Company Analysis, Portfolio Management, Economic Analysis and Capital Market Expectations, Macroeconomic Forecasts in Determining Asset Class/Security Return Expectations, Behavior

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Credit Suisse Group: Managing Equity Research as a Business

HBS Case No. 410-073, Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Unit
Posted: 12 Jun 2010
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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Subprime Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting

HBS Case No. 109-031, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit
Posted: 04 Nov 2009
Paul M. Healy, Krishna Palepu and George Serafeim
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School

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Eddie Bauer (B)

HBS Case No. 110-009, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit
Posted: 05 Sep 2009
Paul M. Healy, Sharon P. Katz and Aldo Sesia
Harvard Business School, INSEAD and Harvard Business School

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Eddie Bauer (C)

HBS Case No. 110-010, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit
Posted: 05 Sep 2009
Paul M. Healy, Sharon P. Katz and Aldo Sesia
Harvard Business School, INSEAD and Harvard Business School

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Eddie Bauer (A)

HBS Case No. 110-008, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit
Posted: 05 Sep 2009
Paul M. Healy, Sharon P. Katz and Aldo Sesia
Harvard Business School, INSEAD and Harvard Business School

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Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Analysts' Earnings Forecasts

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2008
Posted: 24 Sep 2008
Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Craig J. Chapman
Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

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Equity Investments, Fundamental Analysis and Valuation Models, Performance Measurement and Evaluation, Performance Measurement, Investment Industry, Structure, Organization, and Demographics, Firm Management, Adapting to Change

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How the Quest for Efficiency Undermined the Market

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-39
Posted: 24 Jul 2003
Krishna Palepu and Paul M. Healy
Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School

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Corporate Governance, Financial Markets, Intermediaries, Capital Markets

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The Challenges of Investor Communication: The Case of Cuc International, Inc

Posted: 23 May 1998
Paul M. Healy and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

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Do Firms Benefit from Expanded Voluntary Disclosure?

Posted: 28 Aug 1995
Paul M. Healy, Krishna Palepu and Amy P. Hutton
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Boston College - Carroll School of Management

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